New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1929, Page 15

Speaking of Sports The game scheduled for tonight between the New Britain High and basketball teams has been cancelled owing to Gilbert High school objejctions to mid-week games. There is some talk going about town of a benefit basketball game star center of the Corbin Screw and Burritt quin- tets but nothing definite has as yet Leen shaped up. Saunders was in- wed in a preliminary game at the after- | s been confined to for ¥Fred Saunders, inley Arena New Year's ioon and he Led sine [ that time. Manager Clarence Lanpher of the Now ritain team mentioned the af- ir today and he stated that he was willing to cooperate in it on seme night that would not conflict with his schedule. The way seems paved for those who are interested. to go through with the proposition. B greet with nouneement by the an- Clarence enthusiasm Manager Lanpher today that Rubenstein has been signed once again to play with the New Britain team. This will give this city the identical combination that represented it last year on the | courts and the local quintet should return to its winning ways immedi- ately. It will he an interesting thing to watch and see how Rubenstein's play differs from that displayed by McBlwain, star of the earlier season games. “Ruby” is short on shots hut a wonderful floor worker, Sinee e beginning of the zeason, he his asketball fans in this city will| ROGERS ALLEYVS sarra Smith Lasky Luzietti Baldi A. Broskey | Kawesisi | Wagnet Goudrow | Kioss . | F. Broskey Wasieiak Rawerki Tuna Domenic | Sharkey | ven |Joe | Vosner . Cover " 15 | 91 M| t 5 heen dickering with Manager Lin- pher for @ place on the local quin- ‘ tet hut financiel differences have G o kept him awa Adisc s -2 e Schrey s | Al of the defails ware straight- |} MeAleer e ¥ 5 ce | IR ogan H ened out 1ast night in a conference |\ Hokdn - | bleween the two and “Ruby” will make his first appearance here Sat- urday. same time, Lanpher let it At the become known that e has re “Pop” Williams. Williams is*a good player but he was misplaced in the New Britain linenp. Having been trained as a guard or a center, he was placed in forward and he was completely ont of position. He per- formed nicely for New Britain bat the team gave the appearance of be- ing completely disorganized. Tast Saturday night. the quintet appeared at its positive worst and vight then and there Manager lan- phere made his decision to get an- other forward, one upon whom he could depend. 1t was a happy coin- cidence that “Ruby” had just quit the Syracuse team and was a free azent. M5 SFARTHES SUBJECTS' HOMES Mexander Orders Huat for Suspicious Documents Vienna, Jun. leaders of the Croation opposition in Zagreb, Jugoslavia, for suspicious documents and plans. The Croatian split with the Belgrade government culminated in a deadlock which caused King Alexander to proclaim | atorship on Sunday. The dictatorship ordered the police to enter the home of deputies, Per- nar and Paviiteh, leaders respect- ively of the Jugoslav peasant party and the Croutian national party. as a virtual dic well as the residences of the | i v tian leaders, sundell XA“‘M Zogreh mewspapers printed the | ursh 74 v of the search and Belgrade [Valmer ... 62 loteote .0 104 ary authorities immedlately or- dered them confiscated Advices reccived in Zagreb suid the new crnor had announc-d a ¢ all e 1 mail will be opened, hut if harmless it will be rescaled and delivered The Vienna Stunde said the Jugo- slavian minister of interior had pro- hibited dancing and carnival cele- brations throughout the country. Vienna from military gov- A special edition of the Belzrade newspaper Vreme (The Times) an- nouy that new military govern- ment would remain in ofiice for a | Jong time, or until a1l the contem- | plated widespread reforms are af- fected. All the present major state laws wil be redrafted and practically an entirely new state will be created ands of unnecessary govern- ment empleyes will be dismissed without pensions. The savings thus made will be applied to the salaries vil servants to raise their posi- tions above graft and corruption. As another move in the interest of . the number of cabinet portfolios will be rednced to nine onomy Laws already promulgated bring | all law courts under direct control | 5541587 of the government. A new supreme | o court is being created 1o deal with |1, ; fenses under the defense of the De Lamarre Realm aect. From its decisions there | Zucchi ‘ | Low 99— will be no ppeal. | e 49 1119 Widow Says Many M Want to Wed Her . Worcester, Mass., Jan. 9.—(P— Mrs. May Chauncey, widowed mother 98 of two small children who advertised | B0 32y for a husband recently revealed to- 2 day that she has received 125 pro- | posals and inquiries of which 25 were | Lindern w7 i made by potential husbands in per- ?pp,,[“ 9% 109 son. Four other women, two widows | Frick mo0— and two maidens, have appealed to |Blake 107 96— 3u3 Mre, Chauncey to turn over to them Pl e the applications which she cannot use. The women told Mrs. Channcey they had long wanted to do what she | had done but lacked the nerve. Mrs. | Chaun, waid that she may single | out a few “good anes for them® and eaned | 9. —(M)—Scarch was | being made today in the homes of | usorship of | 1109 | 1o Kiars Ludies v 17| ol Meskili Rurdick Selander Doyle It 188 0t | v. s8 o ! | B. 33 1. i | Jie s | B 03 451 S lmidt 103 59 266 Hanford 8 82 240 K Wow W. Milue 538 B0 | ickox 9% 90 93— 81 43433 43 | | Sales Dept. No. | | Borg | White | Swinson Bourgcois hoerfler Kozlowskl | Bacon | Barnes W J. Clark williger Vierling AcConnell Meter Dept. N nnan Scena | niey Hast | Hogan " . I Line Dept. No. 1 W. Strout e 69 | A, Holden 9 5 .9 0 I FAFNIR LEAGUE Forge W 108 i winhan Facy schenk Freeman | Carlson yaon ason Murphy Robertson | tiedenverg Pellettier Carlsou Facey, | schenk Froemun Flood HAS WON 10 LETTERS lix J. McCormick, who graduate from Bucknell with scholastic honors this year, has won four letters in basketball, four in haseball and two in foothall. will high let them “follow the dictates of their own consciences” READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS TEX RICKARD T0 BE BURIED TODAY Funeral Services Will Be Held in Madison Square Garden New York, Jan. 9 (P—Silent as a tomb, Madison Square Garden stood today a temporary sarcophagus for | its dead leader, Tex Rickard. Carried into the huge arcna yes- {terday, the famous sports promot- er's body ly bronze cas- ket throughout the night. Two at- | tendants formed a guard of honor. It will te there in state until funer- al services this afternoon. Champions of many a sport have spair in the Tous that Rickard | built; turbulent excitement has been its almost-daily lot; never before | has it sheltered the dead in solemn dignity. Under the floodlights which usu- ally illuminate the garden’s boxing ring. the dead promoter lies in |casket. Almost divectly opposite is {his own private box, sombre in black draperies. casket stand huge palins. Behind are massed hundreds of floral trib- utes. After relatives and close fricnds of thé promoter had been given their hour or two alone with th: dead yesterday, the doors of th sports palace were thrown open to the general public | Pethigal 108 95— 310| In three hours, son ¢ 15,000 men $51 sos—1s¢1 WOUWIEN and children passed by the Newton ttars |bier to pay their n Ited 92 103 7 | single file that cosn: ose Rgs o 13| ok i posmopMtanierno [Rage. 1 citizenry filod Wearno s |into the Garden, stow 1 the Jenuk % | half-opened casket. and procar fed inta the strects again. Tt was a solomn ovderly ihrons that sang a silent requiem for the dead. At nine e'clock big arena were 1 And mor than a hundred special woline guards left the building and two at tendants at the garden tonk up th all-night vizil hecide the body of thair one time chieftain. The doors will remain closed un- 110 o'clock this morning when {1 general nublic again is fo he admit- fod Mhe doors will remain opon from ¢hat hour until fhe funaral services at 2 o'clock. The Rev. George Caleh Monr, ison cht to conduct the sery Tine nublic is to be admitt 1 to the mezzrnine floor and in arena. A thousand scats on arena flonr will he reserved fo: holders. henorary pall-haarers newspapermen. Afior the service, a1l persons #re o he roquestel to v main meated until the family, inti- mate friends and ths hovorary pall- doors of the avenne wtist ch, 1s goneral had their hour of triumph or de- | At cach side of the | nastor of the | bearers have left th building. A brief service is to be read at the |graveside in Woodlawn cemetery. 'TRADE SCHOOL QUINTET | SWAMPS WILLIMANTIC New Britain - Basketball Team mothers Opponents Under 66 to 6 Score, A basketball team representing the by Trade school of Connecticut, Willimantic, met two or three Water- loos in one yesterday afternoon when the New Britain Traders swamped it | by the score of 66 to 6. The Hard- ware City quintet ran wild on the court, scoring almost at will. A return ga:ie will be played in this city between the two on March The Bummary: New Britain (C I ma ers ed the tra she lea mance of Best Fiction BY GEORGE KIRKSLY United Press Staft Correspondent opyright 1929 *He was my pal t was said of Tex Rickard by ny men in varied w ¥ United Press) cowboys and millionaires, prize fight- and society men. But it remain- for his §1-year-old mother, when ned of his death, to plumb depth of the sincerity of his ex- ordinary character by saying: ‘George was my pal | L. 1. The man who rode a trail to for- Anderson, rf . 1 11 /tune from the ranches of the far Retano, ©f, If . 0 4 west to the heights of showmanship Prszbryz, It . 1 15| and unparalleled success as a pro- Knowles, ¢ 1 11 | moter was chri; ned George Lewis | Fruscella, ¢ 0 4! Rickard. His nickname of Tex, by Becekius, r " 6| which the world e to know him, Cillizza, 1g 1 15| was given him during his early man- hood. His mother never liked it. He was always George Lewis to | | 4 | me,” she said. FI. Tt But the world claimed him as it [ olown as “Tex.” and the dignified, " 0 white-haired old lady who now live | Pirone, 1t [ 0 hrugged her frail should- Hovey, If . 0 0 ¢rs and admitted with a smile that Robarge, 1 1| contained both pride and stubborn- Marty, ¢ Tubbs, r | Gutes, 1 Smith, 15 Shae pal in [ "wri Ka firs it «ha | Referee, Lynn. Young Women Owners Of Elm Court Stable to° New York., Jan. % (11— The new 1lm Court ble, owned by Iran- ces Goodwin and J. Elizabeth Bare, rell, Boston society girls, has been | registered with the National Steeple- ' chase and Hunt association. Miss Goodwin is the daughter and Miss Barrell the step-daughter Angustus I°. Goodwin. They are the youngest women owners of a racing stable in the country. The girls sail- | | toll in simple things of typically tacular 4 George Lewis Rickard. then, s he was pretty important , to me.” Rickard's parents were pioneers Hlinois. His father was a mill- ght and the family migrated to NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1929. TEX WAS A PAL 70 His HOTHER ‘ Rickard's Lile Reads Like Ro- When Tex was four years old, the At another time, 11 | family moved to T and settled 'start !lll the state which later was 10 pro- Omaha with 3,500 steers, | vide | to the world, but he was George, my | that of contributing materially to the nsas, Where Tex's tather built the | t fully equipped mill in the state. Kard often talked of this. 1t wus racteristic of the man that he K (he xame straightforsurd pr A life that he did in his most spec- ievements as a showman, Born In 1870 was The dafe of usly misrep- n Janua 1870, birth has been v; resented, due usually to a prevailing Of | {endency to lop a few years trom the taken by time from prominent characters, Rickard himsclf was uncertain in | ed recently on a trip abroad and yuqer years as to the exact place of may purchase a few jumpers in Eng- | \is birth. He always gave it as Bk es e Kansas City, but once explained: | T “Well, it was outside Kansas City | CENTRE A COACH {In a place called White Church, Kan- id Kubale, who starred on those But I always just claimed mous Centre teams of a few years Kunsas City.” back, has been appointed head foot-| Boyhood for Tex was far from ball conch at his alma mater for|UUIL Jesse James' mother lived it i |near the Rickards, and one day, hortly ufter Tex was born, a posse PLAY GOLEF ON BATT One of the most courses in Virginia is on the ac SFTELD | o me lot icksburg was fought in ‘he Civil War, i the OUR BOARDING HOUSE AHEM, s MARTHA T DISTINGUISHED OLD Wit HoMoR ouRr HuT FoR A FEW — ) { o 'DEAR ,»at SIR JUST INSISTED “THAT WHEN WE VISIT ENGLAND, -THAT WE MAKE OUR AN ERSANNNN IS MY GREAT PLEASURE o (NTRODUCE "To Mou MY SIR ANTHONY WYNK CARTWRIGHT [ OF LONDOM /v SIR ANTHONY OUR GUEST /.t EGAD, EIMHER HIS TowA M'DEAR ,+ % FRIEND, 3 FULFILLED, N HUMBLE DELleHTRIL DANS As ASTHORY STAY I 1 Invaded the modern golf | I'rank. CHAWMED MRS. HOOPLE /w TUST FAUACY, T Am HAVING “THE WisH MEETING -THE WIFE, WHOM -He MAIOR So oPTEN SPOKE oF, DURING -THE LoNELY HOURS oF NIGHT od -THe AWFRICAN VELDT! neighborhood, hunting the bandit and his brother, There was a “right smart of shooting,” Rickard always said rage that the battle of Freder-!afterward, cluiming he was born to sound of firearm And until death stilled his naive, \\ Hou Do You MR. AKTHoRW! wi I DonT oul IF -THE MATOR “oLD You, BUT-THE HoUSE IS VERY MucH FILLED RIGHT Nowl,w So VYou wWiLL HAVE 10 SHARE QUARTERS WITH HIM? w0 o DoUBT AFRICA HAS MADE You Usep o DS~ oMFo'RTs 8 SRR indo.nitable spirit, there was always with an outiit which wintered 1 a “right smart lot of excitement’ where Ricl ird was around. Moved to Texas 000 head in three herds in that state. |cattle had survived the blizzards. nickna th s youngster of the group. On the ‘Where you trom, Buddy?" & morning after the first day's travel, dilor usked Richurd as they were un exhuusted calf was found with up to the Klondike for the the herd, sunk eon its haunches. 1d rush in '95 as,” replied Rickard, who be- Tex,” trom that time on. The Rickard family settled in Sherman, Texas, in 1875, but moved frequently from place to place the father followed his trade of in- stulling mills. It was at the age of six, accord- ing to his miother, thut Tex had his first_experience with fghtin The boy came home from Sun school one day, his best clothvs torn and dusty, his face beaten and bruised Rickard adopted the calf, named u' ‘Sitting Bull” and saw it safely to Owaha. That calf gave Tex a lot of trouble on its wanderings, but he would always get it safely back to the herd. of Rickard's favorite yarns outh was about the calf. ther boys so Jofter if they had seen ‘Sitting Bull, that they called Sitting Bull® myself for a long time afterwards,” Tex would recount. i One of his I o me The afternoon that the herd stir- “How did this happen, sou?" his red up the dust of Omaha’s main father asked hin. orge had been street, Tex met theee young men | told never to fight, and hadn't de- whom he knew slightly. They had | fended himself when an older boy a plan on foot to rob a mail couch, attacked him,” expluined the late and proposed that Rickard join promoter’s aged mother in recalling | them. i the incident. “When his father heard | ] said I'd go t but T didn't,” Tex told long afterwar, “A posse Killed two of those fellows and the that, he reversed his instruction; but gave George a whipping an way, telling him he should have an- ' third was hanged later on." other every time he didn't defend| Rickard continued to “punch himself. jeows™ until he was and must ¢ “After that, George never got any ' have made a reputation for himself more spankings. ! far removed from that of luwless-| Today, Mr ness, for two years later, in 1894, he | mother, recalls this with pride as an ywag elected city marshal of Henriet- | example of his boyhood obedience. |y, While the Rickards were living e Cambridge, Texas, the promoter's . = father died, leaving Tex with quite 15 Dogs on Way to a job on his hands for a hoy of 11,] Join Commander Byrd Vancouver, B. C. Jan. 9 (P—Fif- teen young husky dogs today were on their way from the Pacific f J. L. Adams, Tex's l support of brothers an. Rickard subseqy widowed mother, two three sisters. Mrs. ntly moved to Hen- rietta, where Tex received a little cchooling hen not riding cow ponies and doing odd jobs around the ranches. On the North Trail Before he was out of his 'tcens,| The dogs must reach Dunedin, N. ‘ex took two long trips up the Z. hefore I'ebruary 7, In time to be ' North ‘T'rail, with many head of cat- | forwarded by steamship to the ex- |e tie for Montana. join Commander Richard E. expedition. liner Niagara, sailing from Vancou- ver for Australia. = the day ita With all mekes of cars on for 1929 & matter of record—it must be thet the new Buick with Masterpiece 5 merits final recognition as the mest advenced sutamebile Coupes . $1195 to §1875 Sedans . $1220 to $2145 Sport Cars $1225 to $1550 These prices {.0.b. Buick Fac: tory. Comvemient terms cam be arre '!ll on the liberal G. M. A. C. Time Payment Plan. CAPITOL BUICK 1141 STANLEY STREET Associate Dealers Kullberg’s Garage. Plainville Boyd J. WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT ... BUICK WILL BUTLD THEM Insult Upon Injury - |great ice barrier, They are being | sent | When spring came, less than 1,000 White Pass and Yukon railway. ‘n response 10 2 request cowboys | mander Byrd. Thers was not suffie 1 north frow the panhandie 10 cient time to s=nd 10 the far north ©x being for the dogs, <o those available ‘n this region were sc.ected, Jack Delaney lli_ Delaney, tormer world's light heavy- weight boxing champion is {been sick since last under the care of a local physician, |who Delaney “would weak"” to fight Madison Square ary 1. 'Fatally Injured By Thon Milford was probably fatally injured and Ives street. flicted with a of his room trying to get more air when he lost his balance and fell. |be managed next summer by Joe | Sehepner, | Birmingham infielder. have the northwest to the frozen Antarctic to |the middle west, started the season Byrd's with 18 regulars from last year on They were aboard the |the squad. millionaire, is now half owner of the Detroit Tigers, In 1886, he rode | pedition’s base en the edge of the'inuch | ~~>-as new and | untivaled % by E. J. Farr, agent for the from Com- & With Influenza Bridgeport, Jan. 9. —(P—Jack i with nfluenza at his home here. He has Friday and is intimated this morning that probabl be too Jimmy Slattery in Garden on Febru- Fall in Danbury Conn., Jan. 9 —®— as Halpin, 36 years old of Ncw Danb arly this morning when he fell from he fourth floor of a block at White He landed on his head, causing a racture of the skull. 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